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African American Studies. An important new work from this major american writer. "The publication of Amiri Baraka's SOMEBODY BLEW UP AMERICA AND OTHER...
Amiri Baraka-dramatist, poet, essayist, orator, & fiction writer-is perhaps the preeminent African-American literary figure of our time. Yet, until no...
Social Essays
"Written between 1960 and 1965, Home documents a critical time in American history as well as a crucial stage in the development of one of the most in...
This prose-poem styled memoir of poet, novelist, playwright and black activist delineates the politics and the personal drama of the man who has dared...
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This study attempts to place jazz and the blues within the context of American social history. The author, Leroi Jones - also known as the poet Amiri ...
The Collected Letters
The letters of Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn offer a vivid picture of American lives connecting around poetry during a tumultuous time of change and im...
The complete autobiography of a literary legend....
Negro Music in White America
Examines the history of the Negro in America through the music he created....
Interviews from over the course of the author's career document his views on writing, poetry, drama, and the social role of the writer...
Poems 1961–2013
“S O S provides readers with rich, vital views of the African American experience and of Baraka’s own evolution as a poet-activist” (The Washing...
Containing these poems which the author most wants to preserve, this volume summarizes the career to date of the man who has been called "the father o...
For the first time under one cover, then, here is the collected fiction of one of America's greatest writers."--BOOK JACKET....
The long-awaited reissue of the sequel to Amiri Baraka's seminal work, Blues People....
Poetry. African American. In this latest chapbook from one of the 20th century's most vital and revolutionary authors, poems are set visually on canva...
The Selected Poems of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (1961-1995)
Poet, dramatist, essayist, fiction writer and political activist, Amiri Baraka is considered by many to be the most influential and preeminent African...
The sum total of three hundred years of contained fury, these four plays are powerful statements about the real meaning of white oppression of black p...
Poems
Short Stories
“A clutch of early stories from the poet, playwright, and provocateur, infused with jazz and informed by racial alienation” (Kirkus Reviews). “B...
Here, for the first time, a major African-American writer gathers in one volume the eulogies he has written and spoken, in poetry and prose, over the ...
Afro-American Self-determination & Revolutionary Democratic Struggle in the United States of America
African American Studies. "Baraka sees the struggle for reparations not as an end in itself but as part of a wider struggle for full citizenship and e...
For Black Arthur Blythe
(some Elements and Meaning in Black Style)
"There are mostly portraits here. Portraits of life. Of life being lived. Black People inspire us. Send life into us ... We wanted to conjure with Bla...
Comprised of short fiction spanning the early 1970s to the twenty-first century-most of which has never been published-Tales of the Out & the Gone ref...
"A remarkable narrative of childhood and youth's spiraling out of Dante's Inferno."--...
Discusses modern jazz movements and musicians, including Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Cecil Taylor, Eric Dolphy, Archie Shepp, and S...
A long poem in the tradition of the Djalʹi (Griots) ; it tries to tell the history/life like an ongoing-offcoming tale....
A Novel
“A fevered and impressionistic riff on the struggles of blacks in the urban North and rural South, as told through the prism of The Inferno.” —K...
An Anthology of New Writing in America
22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature
The invasion of the future has begun. Literary legends including Steven Millhauser, Junot Diáz, Amiri Baraka, and Katharine Dunn have attacked the bo...
A Progressive Defence
Speaking at the Congress of African People in September 1970, Amiri Baraka said, “In Newark, when we greet each other on the streets, we say, ‘wha...
Living and Writing Contemporary Art
Selections of writing by the influential art critic and curator Kellie Jones reveal her role in bringing attention to the work of African American, Af...